news from all over the world

Casio’s latest selfie digital camera needs to mix into your purse

In the identical approach that Lizzie Grant and Katheryn Hudson screwed up their first shot at greatness and altered their identify, Casio’s making an attempt to do the identical with its previous Tryx level-and-shoot. The fourth-era of the digital digital camera has been re-invented as a selfiesnapper that is designed to — watch for it — “convey out female magnificence.” Constructed to appear to be a handbag mirror, the EX-TR50 retains the identical flip-out deal with, however features a trendy paint job and a deeply questionable anglein the direction of ladies.

The notable function right here is the brand new 1/1.7-inch CMOS, the identical that is used within the Casio EX-one hundred, which the corporate claims will improve the system’s efficiency in low-mild circumstances. The eleven.1-megapixel sensor is sat beneath a molded glass lens that’ll enhance the digital camera’s peripheral imaginative and prescient. There’s 50MB of constructed-in storage and a microSDXC slot, whereas video could be recorded in resolutions as much as 1,920 x 1,080. Show-clever, you will be wanting right into a three-inch 640 x 480 multi-contact LCD that’ll double up as a mirror for checking your look and make-up. There’s additionally the standard raft of “magnificence mode” options that’ll clean out your pores and skin tone and a posing shot system that’ll train you the way to pose like a mannequin. The corporate hasn’t mentioned actual pricing, however some Casio representatives consider it to be within the area of HK$eight,500, which’d translate to round US$1,one hundred. For that kind of cash, you would in all probability purchase your very personal selfie hat.